Canoes and canoeing - French Polynesia - Tahiti (Island)

Date: 1826

From: Chazal, Antoine, 1793-1854 :[Watercolours, proof engravings and aquatints by Antoine Chazal and others after drawings by Jules LeJeune and others for Duperrey's Voyage autour du monde ... Paris, 1822-1825]

By: LeJeune, Jules Louis, active 1804-1851

Reference: C-082-018

Description: Shows two canoes heading towards Duperrey's ship, La Coquille Redrawn by Chazal from original by Lejeune, & engraved by Tardieu for publication as plate in Duperrey, L I Voyage... sur la Coquille... 1822... 1825... Histoire du voyage. Atlas (Paris, 1826) (fr910.4). Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Sepia and wash, 130 x 200 mm on sheet 260 x 380 mm

By: Hodges, William, 1744-1797

Reference: A-111-137

Description: An array of large Tahitian canoes After engraving by William Woollett from oil by Hodges, plate LXI in Cook, J. A voyage towards the South Pole... London, 1777 Figure 'l' precedes title. Trimmed on all sides Other Titles - Fleet of Tahiti [translation] Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, b&w 150 x 201 mm

Date: 1787 - 1969

From: Cleveley, James, fl 1776-1780 :The Cleveley aquatints. [Drawn on the spot by Jas. Cleveley; painted by Jno. Cleveley, London, F. Jukes aquatt.] Christchurch, Avon Fine Prints [1969]

Reference: C-061-021-a

Description: Canoes, dwellings, the Resolution and Discovery at anchor in Fare Harbour, Huahine, Society Islands. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Coloured photolithograph, 425 x 588 mm, on sheet 555 x 698 mm.

Date: 1778 - 1788 - 1779

By: Cleveley, James, active 1776-1780; Cleveley, John, 1747-1786; Jukes, Francis, 1745-1812; Thomas Martyn (Firm); Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: G-661

Description: Canoes, dwellings, the Resolution and Discovery at anchor in Fare Harbour, Huahine, Society Islands This copy is severely faded. It hung in the entrance hall to the Alexander Turnbull Library in Bowen Street for many years. A better quality copy (a proof before lettering) is held at C-036-020 Quantity: 1 colour art print(s) framed. Physical Description: Aquatint, hand-coloured, 430 x 600 mm Provenance: Collection of A. H. Turnbull. In its original frame. See letters of A. H. Turnbull, v. 4, 1898, p.401.

Date: 1838 - 1835 - 1843 - 1836

From: Various artists :[66 engravings of Oceanian subjects, including Tahiti, Marquesas, Tonga, Pitcairn, Vanuatu, and Polynesia in general. 1838-1843].

By: Danvin, Victor Marie Felix, 1802-1842

Reference: A-318-039

Description: Shows a scene of a lake or broad river, with two figures in the left foreground, one bending over a narrow plank or boat. Across the water are one or two huts, and there are hills in the distance. Plate 154 in Domeny de Rienzi's book. In the French edition, Danvin is inscribed as the copyist and Chavannes as the engraver, but the Italian version appears to be by a different engraver. Other Titles - Iles Taiti - Vue d'un interieur de Matavai Other Titles - Tahiti - View of an interior of Matavai Extended Title - From G L Domeny's "Oceania o quinta parte del mondo revista geografica ed etnografica della Malesia, della Micronesia, della Polinesia e della Melanesia ...". Venezia, Giuseppe Antonelli, 1838-43. (Italian edition of his "Oceanie ...". Paris, Firmin Didot freres, 1835-36). Inscriptions: Recto - top right - 154 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s) extracted from book.. Physical Description: Engraving, black and white, on paper, 141 x 216 mm. Provenance: Purchased at Dunbar Sloane Ltd Winter Antique auction, 1997, lots 462, 463, 466, 468, and 470.

Date: 1788 - 1969

From: Cleveley, James, fl 1776-1780 :The Cleveley aquatints. [Drawn on the spot by Jas. Cleveley; painted by Jno. Cleveley, London, F. Jukes aquatt.] Christchurch, Avon Fine Prints [1969]

Reference: C-061-019

Description: Title a misnomer for Matavai Bay, Tahiti. Shows Captain Cook with Tahitians on the beach, Tahitian dwellings, canoes and Cook's 2 ships, the Resolution and Discovery. Printed by Pictorial Publications Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Colour photolithograph, 425 x 583 mm, on sheet 555 x 698 mm.

Date: 1787 - 1779

By: Cleveley, James, active 1776-1780; Jukes, Francis, 1745-1812; Thomas Martyn (Firm); Turnbull, Alexander Horsburgh, 1868-1918

Reference: C-036-019-a

Description: Shows Tahitian canoes and dwellings and the Resolution and Discovery anchored in the harbour of Talough (Opunohu Bay), Moorea, Society Islands. There are large trees on the shore to the left and tall mountain peaks in the background Other Titles - Moorea The scene was recorded during Captain Cook's third circumnavigation Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Aquatint, hand-coloured, 444 x 617 mm (trimmed to edges) glued to sheet 520 x 655 mm Provenance: Possibly collection of Alexander Turnbull

Date: 1790 - 1799

By: Page, active 1812; Hodges, William, 1744-1797

Reference: A-111-049

Description: Many large ocean-going Tahitian canoes with rowers and a priest with tall feathered head-dress in the nearest one. Land to the left Derived from an engraving by Woollett after oil painting by Hodges on Cook's 2nd voyage in: Cook J. A voyage towards the South Pole. London, 1777, Vol. 1 pl. 61. Extended Title - Published in: Anderson, G W. A new, authentic and complete collection of voyages round the world [Anr. ed.] Pl. 108 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, b&w, 235 x 365 mm on sheet 237 x 383 mm, trimmed inside upper plate mark. Provenance: Purchased in a collection of portraits from Francis Edwards (No. 904) London, 1967

Date: 1777 - 1790

From: Webber, John, 1751-1793 :[Engravings to illustrate Cook's voyages] / Beilby & Bewick sculpt. - [Newcastle ; Printed by M Brown, 1790?]

Reference: A-111-071

Description: Shows a view of Fare Harbour with peaked mountains in the back. In the bay are the `Resolution' and the `Discovery', and many native craft. There are palm trees at the centre and the far right. By the shore a group of natives are tending a double canoe with a deck-house. In the background and along the shore are native huts. On the far right is Mount Turi. Derived from engravings by Webber on Cook's 3rd voyage in: Cook, J. Voyage to the Pacific Ocean. London, 1784. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, b&w, plate 135 x 207 mm, on sheet 142 x 223 mm

Date: 1777 - 1784

From: Webber, John 1751-1793 :[Plates illustrating Captain Cook's third voyage / J. Webber delt, various hands engraved. London, 1784]

By: Byrne, William, 1743-1805

Reference: C-131-031

Description: A sweeping view of Fare Harbour with peaked mountains in the back. In the bay are the `Resolution' and the `Discovery' , and many native craft. Palm trees are at the centre and left. By the shore a group of natives are tending a double canoe with a deck-house. In the background and along the shore are native huts. On the far left is Mount Turi. Other Titles - Fare Harbour Extended Title - From: Cook, J. A voyage to the Pacific Ocean ...(London, Strahan, 1784). Atlas. Plate 31 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving on cream wove paper, 260 x 488 mm

Date: 1769 - 1820

From: [Various artists] :[Plates from All the voyages round the world] - [London ; Sir Richard Phillips & Co., 1820]

By: Parkinson, Sydney, 1745-1771

Reference: A-211-062/063

Description: The top image is based on an original drawing by Sydney Parkinson in 1769, shows an outrigger boat with a sail, and in the left foreground a man paddling on a raft. There is a further sailed canoe in the left distance and headlands in the right background. The lower image, from an original drawing titled "tupapow" by Parkinson in 1769, shows a masked and robed ceremonial figure with a long staff in the left foreground. In the centre middle background is a fence enclosure containing a roofed platform on which a shrouded body is lying. Other Titles - Matavai; tupapow; tupapau Extended Title - Published in Samuel Prior's "All the voyages round the world" Quantity: 2 b&w art print(s) on one sheet. Physical Description: Engravings on sheet 180 x 104 mm.

Date: 1777 - 1785 - 1779 - 1795

From: [Various artists] :[Illustrations to Cook's voyages - London? 18--?]

Reference: A-111-090

Description: A sweeping view of Fare Harbour with peaked mountains in the back. In the bay are the `Resolution' and the `Discovery', and many native craft. Palm trees are at the left. By the shore a group of natives are tending a double canoe with a deck-house. In the background and along the shore are native huts. On the far left is Mount Turi. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, b&w, image 99 x 176 mm, on sheet 146 x 223 mm

Date: 1800 - 1810

From: Artist unknown :[South Seas views from Galleria universale di tutti i popoli del mondo. Venezia, Antonelli, 1841]

Reference: A-119-047

Description: Plate 79, volume 3 of an illustrated Italian publication. An upper plate showing on the left, a man and a woman, the man with a Grecian-style helmet on his head, supposedly from Fiji; on the right, a standing man and woman and three dancing children, from Tahiti. The lower plate shows Tahitians launching canoes with a background of mountains Other Titles - Inhabitants of the Fiji Islands. Inhabitants of Tahiti Island. View of the island of Tahiti Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Two hand-coloured lithographs on one sheet, 296 x 201 mm

Date: 1800 - 1810

From: Artist unknown :[South Seas views from Galleria universale di tutti i popoli del mondo. Venezia, Antonelli, 1841]

Reference: A-119-051

Description: Plate 83 volume 3 of an illustrated Italian publication. An upper plate showing a large tree trunk, perhaps over a spring, with water spouting along a bark gutter into a pot. The lower plate shows Tahitians fishing with nets from canoes with a background of shoreline houses and mountains Other Titles - Reticulation of water used in the Society Islands. Fishing with a net in the island of Tahiti [Translation] Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Two hand-coloured lithographs on one sheet, 296 x 201 mm

Date: 1774

By: Hodges, William, 1744-1797

Reference: B-054-045

Description: Shows the assembled Tahitian fleet during Cook's second circumnavigation, 1772-1775, during his second visit to Tahiti, 1774. Based on an oil by Hodges "Review of the War Galleys at Tahiti" at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London. See Joppien & Smith 2.114 & 2.114A Other Titles - The fleet of Tahiti assembled at Oparee. 1774 Extended Title - From: Cook, James, 1728-1779. Reizen rondom de waerld. Leyden, 1803. Plate XLVII (47) Dutch translation of A voyage towards the South Pole...London, 1777, Vol I, Plate LXI (41) betw. pages 342 & 343 Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving 205 x 365 to plate-mark on sheet 232 x 378 mm (sight)

Date: 1826

From: Chazal, Antoine, 1793-1854 :[Watercolours, proof engravings and aquatints by Antoine Chazal and others after drawings by Jules LeJeune and others for Duperrey's Voyage autour du monde ... Paris, 1822-1825]

By: LeJeune, Jules Louis, active 1804-1851

Reference: C-082-038

Description: View of the village of Maupiti (Tahiti) showing dwellings, coconut palms, canoes in the water, and a backdrop of a rocky hillside. On the far right there is a row of cliffs overlooking the ocean. Redrawn by Chazal from original by Lejeune, & engraved by Tardieu for publication as plate in Duperrey, L I Voyage... sur la Coquille... 1822... 1825... Histoire du voyage. Atlas (Paris, Arthur Bertrand, 1826) (fr910.4). Inscriptions: Recto - A Chazel Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Sepia wash, 130 x 200 mm on sheet 340 x 500 mm

Date: 1768 - 1872

By: Gentleman's magazine, and historical chronicle

Reference: A-327-013

Description: A page of the Gentleman's magazine of July 1772, showing three illustrations of canoes. The top one (from the Navigator Islands, ie Samoa) and bottom one (from Tahiti) have sails, while the centre one (from Choiseul, ie Solomon Islands) is propelled by oarsmen. This sheet may be a page removed from an issue of Gentleman's Magazine. Other Titles - Tahiti The images may be based on those drawn on Bougainville's voyage of 1768, visiting all of these island locations (Solomon Islands, Tahiti, and Samoa). Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, 190 x 105 mm, on loose page 211 x 120 mm. Provenance: Elsdon Craig papers, purchased 2003. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - Elsdon Craig papers..

Date: 1826

From: Chazal, Antoine, 1793-1854 :[Watercolours, proof engravings and aquatints by Antoine Chazal and others after drawings by Jules LeJeune and others for Duperrey's Voyage autour du monde ... Paris, 1822-1825]

By: LeJeune, Jules Louis, active 1804-1851

Reference: C-082-019

Description: Shows a Tahitian canoe heading towards a sailing ship, Duperrey's vessel, La Coquille. In the background is low-lying land to the left, with coconut palms and houses. To the right are high peaks Redrawn by Chazal from original by Lejeune, & engraved by Tardieu for publication as plate 8 in Duperrey, L I Voyage... sur la Coquille... 1822... 1825... Histoire du voyage. Atlas (Paris, 1826) (fr910.4). Other Titles - View of Point Venus, at Matavai, Tahiti Island [translation] Quantity: 1 colour art print(s). Physical Description: Aquatint, 240 x 330 mm on sheet 510 x 360 mm

Date: 1826

From: Chazal, Antoine, 1793-1854 :[Watercolours, proof engravings and aquatints by Antoine Chazal and others after drawings by Jules LeJeune and others for Duperrey's Voyage autour du monde ... Paris, 1822-1825]

By: LeJeune, Jules Louis, active 1804-1851

Reference: C-082-020

Description: A pandanus tree and coconut palms with dwellings on the far side of the river, a small canoe on the water, three people standing on the near bank Redrawn by Chazal from original by Lejeune, & engraved by Tardieu for publication as plate in Duperrey, L I Voyage... sur la Coquille... 1822... 1825... Histoire du voyage. Atlas (Paris, 1826) (fr910.4). Other Titles - View taken at Tahiti on the banks of the river Matavai [translation] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 130 x 200 mm on sheet 250 x 380 mm

Date: 1774 - 1800 - 1830

From: [Various artists] :[Illustrations to Cook's voyages - London? 18--?]

Reference: A-111-091

Description: Shows a double-hulled war canoe in the foreground, with a figure in a tall white-feathered headdress at the left end, and about fifteen men sitting on the boat's platform. In the right background are two other boats of the same design, flying small square sails tied to the high stern ends. Other Titles - Pare Bay Hodges made the original picture in May 1774 or later, on Cook's second voyage. Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, b&w, image 100 x 176 mm, on sheet 148 x 222 mm